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The Stranger · Beat 2 · permalink

Police station

2:10–3:32 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:112:11Frame at 2:532:53

Play from 2:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 2 · shots 1–2. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
police_station (police station, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in dark coat and hat, standing at desk visible, audible
  • man in light uniform and cap, facing p1 visible
  • man in light uniform and cap, standing behind desk visible
Also said
“What happened? I'm going to go to the car. Oh, well.” 3:13
Seen
cigarette in holder [frame:1], desk [frame:2], uniforms [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspicion, authority, deception; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, medium shots, static framing

A man speaks about traveling for his health and mentions being with Polanski while standing at a desk with uniformed personnel. A separate frame shows a close-up of a cigarette held in a holder.

“I'm traveling for my health.” 2:13 · “You are with Polanski.” 2:43 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from The Stranger (1946) at 2:11 (passage 2:10–3:32); US record: No renewal found

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